Best smelling orchid?

[snowflake311]

I love fragrant orchids. I love how they can full a room with the smell of fresh flowers.

What are some of your Favorite fragrant orchids that can be used as air fresheners for your home?

I love my Sherry baby and my Encyclia Cordigera.

[Mandy2705]

My favorites are the ones that fill up an entire room I have had my Sharry baby bloom but it only had two flowers, so at the moment that ones doesn't make the list. Until it blooms next time, I am sure it will. So my picks are maxillaria ten. filled my entire bedroom with its lovely coconut scent. Then my den. (speciosum-gracilicaule)-(specious-kingianum) hybrid filled my entire kitchen and living room every morning with its rich, sweet honey scent, ooo it was fantastic. My experience with fragrant orchids isn't too extensive so this list will change I am sure with time

[My Green Pets]

Cattleya walkeriana is powerful and smells wonderful in my opinion.
Lots of Oncidiums are fragrant, my Jungle Monarch smells like lilac while Onc. maculatum smells like bananas and pineapples to me.
A good Phal. schilleriana has a deep, rosy floral fragrance that carries.
Zygopetalums have a hyacinth-like scent, also powerful.
There are so many more!

[Leafmite]

I collect fragrant plants so most of my orchids are fragrant. Much of the time, when the orchids turn out not to be fragrant, they go (there are a few exceptions).

Angraecum Magdalenae. It is fragrant both day and night (stronger at night) and the fragrance is perfectly lovely. The flowers last over a month. Many Angraecums are wonderfully fragrant at night.
Brassavola Little Stars “Yasuji Takaeki' The perfume is wonderful at night and in the early morning. Powerful but not sickingly so.
Brassavola nodosa. Make certain it is a fragrant clone. Some of the ones being sold are bred just for the flowers and the fragrance is missing. For an orchid known for the fragrance...quite disappointing.
Potinara Burana Beauty 'Burana' HCC/AOS This is a winner. Blooms multiple times a year and has a very nice fragrance. Is small and doesn't take up much space. Flowers are cute.
Cattleya Mini Purple 'Blue Hawaii' This is a wonderful primary hybrid of C. walkeriana. Very nice fragrance. I use the flower as my avatar as it is my favorite Cattleya.
Burrageara Nelly Isler 'Swiss Beauty' Bright red flowers, Tropicana rose fragrance that fills an entire room in the morning.
Phalaenopsis bellina Amazing and powerful, beautiful fragrance. I am not all that fond of Phals but this is one worth having. I also have the violacea but haven't had it bloom, yet.
Neofinetia falcata Lovely night fragrance and the right clone can perfume an entire room with just four flowers (the one that does that happens to be a NoID so I can't really give you an accurate name)
Sievekingia fimbriata Blooms don't last long but it has a nice fragrance and does great in shade if you don't have much light. Once it gets large enough, it can bloom often. It is a change of pace if you want something a little different.

[tarev]

I have always loved my Zygopetalum! And it is in bloom now with its wonderful scent

[RandomGemini]

My favorite is Phal. Violacea. It smells like fruit loops.

[Tschimm]

Brassavola tuberculata is my favorite so far.

If there was an orchid that smells like Aloysia citrodora, I would buy dozens of them :-)

[snowflake311]

Thats a lot to pick from. What one is your Fav?

Originally Posted by Leafmite

I collect fragrant plants so most of my orchids are fragrant. Much of the time, when the orchids turn out not to be fragrant, they go (there are a few exceptions).

Angraecum Magdalenae. It is fragrant both day and night (stronger at night) and the fragrance is perfectly lovely. The flowers last over a month. Many Angraecums are wonderfully fragrant at night.
Brassavola Little Stars “Yasuji Takaeki' The perfume is wonderful at night and in the early morning. Powerful but not sickingly so.
Brassavola nodosa. Make certain it is a fragrant clone. Some of the ones being sold are bred just for the flowers and the fragrance is missing. For an orchid known for the fragrance...quite disappointing.
Potinara Burana Beauty 'Burana' HCC/AOS This is a winner. Blooms multiple times a year and has a very nice fragrance. Is small and doesn't take up much space. Flowers are cute.
Cattleya Mini Purple 'Blue Hawaii' This is a wonderful primary hybrid of C. walkeriana. Very nice fragrance. I use the flower as my avatar as it is my favorite Cattleya.
Burrageara Nelly Isler 'Swiss Beauty' Bright red flowers, Tropicana rose fragrance that fills an entire room in the morning.
Phalaenopsis bellina Amazing and powerful, beautiful fragrance. I am not all that fond of Phals but this is one worth having. I also have the violacea but haven't had it bloom, yet.
Neofinetia falcata Lovely night fragrance and the right clone can perfume an entire room with just four flowers (the one that does that happens to be a NoID so I can't really give you an accurate name)
Sievekingia fimbriata Blooms don't last long but it has a nice fragrance and does great in shade if you don't have much light. Once it gets large enough, it can bloom often. It is a change of pace if you want something a little different.

[astrid]

My favorites are my Nelly Isler orchid, and I love the Iwanagara Apple Blossom.

The Nelly Isler smells like a musky lemon fragrance, and the Iwanagara smells like strawberry milk to me.

I also love my NOID pink miltoniopsis that smells like rosy perfume and goodness... oh man it's too great!

[Leafmite]

Originally Posted by snowflake311

Thats a lot to pick from. What one is your Fav?

Whichever is in bloom. Just kidding. I'd have to say that my favorite is probably the Angraecum mag. The amazing fragrance was every day and night for over a month.